Physics, movies and simulating reality
Jan 15, 2011From Tom Rogers and our favorite Physics Movies site:
Movies and physics have a lot in common: neither are completely realistic, both are simulations of reality.
Simulations
LPP does not at present have the resources to have full time work on the simulation of the DPF that they are developing. However, with the help of LPP contractor Dr. John Guillory and FFS volunteers Henning Burdack and Warwick Dumas, they are approaching the point where a 1-D simulation of the formation of the filaments will be giving useful information. They will also be working on ways to model the kinking of the central filament into the plasmoid. See the DPF animation for a demonstration of filaments and plasmoids.
Your involvement makes a big difference!
Join online, or send checks payable to
Focus Fusion Society, PO Box 232, South Bound Brook, NJ 08880.
Recent posts in this category
First Simulation Success
May 05, 2010A joint team from LPP and Focus Fusion Society has produced a first numerically stable run of 70 ns simulating the formation of a single filament as part of the plasma sheath in a DPF.
Two versions of 1-D filament simulations now running, being de-bugged
Jan 09, 2010[Update from LPP] Thanks to the work of Jeff Shoen, Henning Burdack and John Guillory, we have gone from zero to two working versions of our one-dimensional filament formation simulation.
Progress in Fusion Simulations
Jan 08, 2005While funding remains a critical factor, progress has been made in recent months in focus fusion research. Robert Terry of Naval Research Laboratory, who is collaborating with Lerner, has further developed techniques that can be used to simulate the complex process with in a dense plasma focus.
